Four countries in concert
Norwegian, Austrian, Georgian and Armenian musicians, including Grammy Award winner Arto Tunçboyacıyan.
International Festival of Contemporary Experimental and Ethno-Avant-Garde ArtEst. 2005
Art of creating
new meanings.
Noumenart begins where an artwork stops illustrating an idea and starts producing one.
Festival video archiveWatch Noumenart on YouTube↗N°
Rooted in the philosophy of Infodicea, a noumenograph uses artistic means to reveal a new eidos through emotion.
Living archive · 2005—26Two decades · one unstable field
The archive refuses
to stay flat.
Parajanov, Tunçboyacıyan, Helbock and Menlibayeva stand at the threshold. Pull the corner: the larger field begins to move.
Archive focus · full concert2025 · Yerevan · House of Chamber MusicImaginary FolkloreA concert in memory of Misha AlperinWatch on Facebook ↗01
Project atlas
One festival.
Many coordinates.
Choose a point to follow realised, online, current, cancelled and proposed chapters. The atlas distinguishes completed events from plans that were never realised.
Cooperation anchorRealised onsiteRealised onlineOnline → proposed onsiteCancelled before realisationArchived origin
Cooperation anchorCurrent · anchor
Current platform
Tbilisi · Georgia
A living platform in the Caucasus
Events, exhibitions, screenings and conversations continue the festival’s search for forms that do not merely represent reality, but reorganise it.
05 / 08
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European cooperation horizon
From a festival
to a continuous laboratory.
A four-year transnational cooperation vision connecting Yerevan, Tbilisi, Oslo, Leipzig, Kyiv and Almaty.
Submitted as a Creative Europe cooperation proposal. Figures below describe the proposed 2027–2031 framework.Imaginary folkloreWorking principle · 2027—2031
Tradition is not a relic.
It is reactivated.
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NOUMEN ART treats cultural memory neither as a fixed inheritance nor as an exotic object, but as active material from which new contemporary forms can emerge.
Equal-footed co-creation
Artists from Eastern Partnership, Nordic and Central European scenes collaborate as authors—not as regional representatives placed side by side.
Multidisciplinary hybridity
Experimental music, dance, live art, video, AI, immersive media, theatre and pantomime share a single field of invention.
Sustainable circulation
Rotating editions, flexible residencies and a living digital archive carry works across borders and beyond the duration of an event.
Responsible access
Clustered mobility, hybrid participation, gender balance and support for Ukrainian cultural resilience are embedded in production.
01YerevanArmenia
02TbilisiGeorgia
03OsloNorway
04LeipzigGermany
05KyivUkraine
06AlmatyKazakhstan
Proposed scale
The website is conceived as the first public layer of a future living archive, educational resource and circulation platform.
48months
12–14major editions
4thematic residencies
250+artists & professionals
20,000+physical audience
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Our partners
Six countries.
One working organism.
The consortium combines festival direction, music networks, media art, international booking and locally rooted production.
The organisations below form the cooperation proposal submitted to Creative Europe. Roles describe the proposed 2027–2031 framework.6countries
5+1partners + associated partner
Yerevancoordination base
2027—31proposed cooperation
01Coordinator
ArmeniaYerevan
Gallery of Arts Cultural Fund
Mariam Shahinyan · Project Coordinator
Consortium coordination, financial and administrative management, strategic leadership and the Yerevan editions.
02Partner
GeorgiaTbilisi
Videotravel Club LLC
Giorgi Davitashvili · Founding Artistic Director
Overall artistic direction, programming, commissions, residencies and production of the Tbilisi editions.
03Partner
NorwayOslo
Kjell Kallekleiv Management AS
Kjell Kallekleiv · International artist relations
Nordic artist networks, international booking and production of the proposed Oslo edition.
04Partner
GermanyLeipzig
LeipJAZZig e.V.
Christian Schierwagen · Managing Director
Music programming, local production, audience development and the proposed Leipzig edition.
05Partner
UkraineKyiv
Carbon Art Residency
Kateryna Pits · Media artist / VJ Ket
Live visuals, video, projection mapping and digital-art development within the Kyiv strand.
06Associated partner
KazakhstanAlmaty
LTD TEATR.KZ
Almagul Menlibayeva · Media-art lead
Media art, digital and AI-art expertise, connecting the cooperation framework with the Almaty scene.
Cooperation principle
Each organisation holds a distinct field of competence; artistic decisions are developed collectively and realised through local knowledge.
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Events & projects
Forms change.
The inquiry remains.
Exhibitions, screenings, concerts, mappings and round tables are different instruments for the same task: opening a new eidos through experience.
Dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Misha Alperin (1956–2018): concerts with Norwegian, Austrian, Georgian and Armenian musicians, including Grammy Award winner Arto Tunçboyacıyan. The Autumn Session continues on 14 November with a special programme marking the 30th anniversary of Sketches on Parajanov (1996).
Noumenart programmeAEssays & noumenographs
Ideas that begin in art
Philosophical writing developed from works, encounters and questions first articulated by the festival.
BProject dossiers
The work behind the event
Visual research, curatorial premises and production documents that reveal how each project acquires its form.
CConversations
A polyphony of methods
Artists, filmmakers, musicians and thinkers speak across disciplines without dissolving their differences.